| WORD | EXCEL | PUBLISHER | ACCESS | POWERPOINT |

| DREAMWEAVER | FIREWORKS | FLASH |

| PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS |

Word – Beginner

Make a 5 page rhyming poem booklet with a cover. Each page must have at least 8 lines of poetry.

Make a 5 page non-rhyming poem booklet with a cover. Each page must have at least 8 lines of poetry. http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html

Write a funny short story (300 words +).

Design a fund raising letter.

Write a letter to a legislator to have something improved in our State.

Write a letter requesting someone to volunteer to do something to help our community.

Write a thank you note to a parent, teacher or relative

Write a science fiction story (300 words +).

Design a fax sheet.

Word – Intermediate

Write an historical essay (300 words +) with bibliography. It may be done on anyplace, anytime, and anyone in history.

Write a sports essay (300 words +) with bibliography. It may be done on anyplace, anytime, anyone in history.

Write an historical story based on any time period of history.

Make a news article about this school (300 words +). You must have it in columns.

Make a list using different types of tabs and leaders.

Word – Advanced

Make a letter that can be sent to 10 friends using mail merge. Use this site for help - http://www.halifax.k12.va.us/training/merge/mailmerge.htm

Make labels using mail merge. Use this site for help - http://www.functionx.com/mailmerge/labels.htm

Publisher – Beginner

Make a family newsletter (300 words +) on 2 pages. You may bring in photos that can be scanned in or they may be on a CD.

Design an invitation to a party.

Design an agenda cover.

Design a lawn mowing, snow shoveling, or baby sitting brochure

Design a holiday party flyer.

Design a sports flyer telling when there will be sign ups for a sport.

Design a travel brochure.

Design a back to school brochure.

Publisher - Intermediate

Write a newsletter that includes a short biography on 3 different people of 3 different races in any one area of study such as: inventing, athletics, art, music, and science. It must have a bibliography.

Make a newsletter using drop caps and other extras. Use this site for help - http://www.learnthat.com/courses/computer/publisher2003/pub21.asp

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Publisher - More Advanced

Make a brochure using a master page.

Excel - Beginner

Make a word problem math test with separate answer sheet for grades 4-6.

Make a spreadsheet with a chart on any area of biology.

Make an expense account

Design an invoice.

Design a budget for a trip.

Design an inventory check list for your house.

Design a grocery shopping check off list.

Design a CD or DVD list with 3 or more columns of information.

Design a purchase order.

Design a schedule.

Make a chart on the temperatures of our planets.

Make a chart on a survey that you make up. Take the survey, and use the data for your chart.

Excel – Intermediate

Design a invoice for a company.

Setup a family budget and remember everything that is needed including things like food, clothing, rent or mortgage, gas, car payments, heat, insurance, toys, etc.

Setup a dream vacation spreadsheet. Show costs for everything, and state where you got your prices.

Excel – Advanced

Make a timeline on American history using Excel. Use this web site as a tutorial for making it.

 (http://www.microsoft.com/education/CreateTimeline.mspx)

Make a spreadsheet using these functions – max, min, count, count, and if using this web site for help. http://usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/index.html

Make a worksheet with these functions countif and if using this website for help. http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/class/formulas.htm

Make an Excel spreadsheet using the - if function – use this website for help. http://www.officeclues.com/articles/getArticle2.php?articleCode=4e7f2f03ae93060563c2d74b745b9f2a#

Make a drop down list in Excel using this web site for help http://www.officeclues.com/articles/getArticle2.php?articleCode=c539b94bb5cf52fd57aa460df0ab9a6e#

Make an Excel worksheet having absolute cells using this web site for help. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_percent.htm

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PowerPoint – Beginner

Make a presentation on the history of Mine Hill.

Make a presentation of a biography on a famous pharaoh of Egypt.

Make a presentation of a biography on a famous emperor of the Roman Empire.

Design a vacation slide show about a vacation you have taken.

Make a presentation on a sport.

Make a science presentation on any classification of plants.

Make a presentation on a movie or musical group.

Make a presentation on a type of music.

PowerPoint – Intermediate

Make a presentation with sound.

Dreamweaver - Beginner

Make a one page web site on an historical figure.

Make a web page on a famous writer.

Make a one page web site on a sport or sports figure.

Dreamweaver – Intermediate

Make a three page or more web site on an historical figure with rollovers.

Make a three page or more web site on a scientific fact with swap image effects.

Dreamweaver – Advanced

Make a web page using only html code. Use these sites for help - http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/lesson01.html

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Fireworks - Beginner

Make a magazine cover that includes the title, date, main article and artwork.

Make an advertisement. You must have a photo of the item that you enhance, a slogan, product name and company name.

Design a business card.

Design an award certificate.

Design a flyer for a lost dog or cat.

Design greeting card for a holiday.

Design a calendar.

Design a postcard.

Design a garage sale sign.

Fireworks – Intermediate

Make your name look dramatic. Use these sites for help - http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Photo-inside-of-text/14383

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Photo-with-torn-edge/14172

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Sleek-text/14173

Fireworks – Advanced

Make an animation using Fireworks. Use these sites for help - http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Animated-gifs-in-fireworks/14068

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Motion-Trail-effect-in-fireworks/14070

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Twist-and-Fade-Image/7452

Photoshop Elements - Beginner

Make an advertisement. You must have a photo of the item that you enhance, a slogan, product name and company name.

Design stationary for a business.

Design packaging.

Show the different stages of mitosis in a cell.

Make a drawing showing the different layer of the earth.

Photoshop - Intermediate

Make a gif animation on how a plant grows.

Draw a portrait of your head.

Make an item look real and 3 dimensional.

Take a photo and change the time of day in the way it looks.

Design a Social Studies book cover.

Photoshop Elements – More Advanced

Make an abstract painting look for a DVD cover. Must have fancy text, photo images, lists and more.

Access - Beginner

Make a database on cards (sports, magical, etc.), DVDs or CDs.

Design a database of recipes.

Access – Intermediate

Make up a set of statistics for a sport, and a query on those statistics.

Show the science of mixing colors using test tubes.

Flash - Beginner

Make an animation on the stages of a butterfly.

Make an animation on how levers work.

Show a supernova in action.

Show sound waves moving in the air.

Flash – Intermediate

Have a fish swimming in a fish tank with the fins moving.

A player scoring a goal and the goal keeper diving to block it. You may not use stick figures.

Make a bird flying with the wings moving. Use this site for help - http://www.echoecho.com/flashtweenings01.htm

Make something move around the screen using a path. Use this site for help - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/tweening-motion-along-path

Flash - More Advanced

Animate a shine on something. Use this site for help - http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/239/en/

Add sound and simple sound controls. Use this site for help - http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/195/en/

Pause animation. Use this site for help using script in Flash - http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/pause.htm

Make random movement in your animation. Use this site - http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/random_motionMX.htm

Make a talking and moving cartoon. Use this site - http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm

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